The famous Gay & Bisexual in history. (Part Two.)

8. Tchaikovsky: Russian composer, as seen
in “swan lake”, “sleeping beauty” and “the nutcracker”, etc. Be forced to
commit suicide at the young age because of the come out as gay.

9. George Santayana:
write the “kingdom”, “sense of life” such as philosophy book, he speak out his
homosexuality in the autobiographical novel “The last puritans”.

10. E. M. Foster: British writer, author of “a
passage to India”, “room of the view”. The gay short story “The coming of life”
was published after his death.

11. Woolf:
British modernist writer, Wrote a fantasy novel “Orlando” to her gay partner.

12. John Maynard
Keynes: founder of macroeconomics. Activists of the “Bruce group” in
University of Cambridge. The group is mainly composed of gay and bisexual
liberal intellectuals, including Forster, Woolf etc.

13. Andre Gide: Married cousin Madeleine in
1985, but the marriage was not a happy life. He did not change gay addiction,
resulting in his wife depressive illness.

14. Thomas Edward Lawrence: British
soldier. Launched the Arabia tribe in the desert of North Africa made brilliant
achievements. The film “Lawrence of Arabia” made a vivid display of his
military career, but keep from talking about the homosexuality between him and
the Arabia youth Armand.

15. Michel Foucault: A famous French
historian and thinker, the main representative of the social constructivism
theory. Known as “the last thinker in twentieth Century”. He regard
homosexuality as a source of creativity.

16. Sergei Eisenstein: The famous director,
representative works include “Bronenosets Potemkin” and “Ivan”. When he was
filming in Mexico in 30s. The Soviet Union recalled him due to the exposure of homosexual.

17. Thomas Lanier Williams Ⅲ: “The Glass
Menagerie”, ”A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof” is the
American drama repertoire ace. In the age that gay was oppressed and taboo.
Williams boldly portrayed homosexuals as a rebel force that had been swallowed
up by the society. For the first time they will be pushed to the stage of
American drama, ushered in the dawn of the gay liberation movement in the United
States.

18. Alan Mathison Turing: Successful
interpretation of the German code and known as the unsung heroes during World
WarⅡ. He was persecuted because of the breakdown gay relationship.
Finally commit suicide by poison at 43 years old.